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The father of 18-year-old Bilel Zouaidia, one of the six teenagers who left Canada in the past two months, said his son took Arabic and religious courses through Charkaoui’s École Les Compagnons.
Collège de Maisonneuve suspended its rental agreement with Charkaoui on Thursday, saying it had discovered video footage that promoted “ values that are different villa from ours .” A second school, Collège de Rosemont, also suspended its contract with the school.
But eight years after his arrival, in the spring of 2003, the Canadian government had Charkaoui arrested on a security certificate which allows “the removal from Canada of non-Canadians who have no legal right to be here and who pose a serious threat to Canada and Canadians ” alleging he had ties to al Qaeda.
He was held in custody for 21 months before being placed under house arrest and under 24-hours surveillance. He also had to wear a GPS monitoring device for four years. Charkaoui was never charged with a crime.
Amar Wala, the documentary’s director and co-producer, got to know Charkaoui through working on the film. He said it’s common for Charkaoui’s name to pop up when terrorism and radicalization villa are making headlines.
“He’s actually been in and out of the news, consistently, since 2009,” Wala said. “Every few months, something happens where Mr. Charkaoui is either villa targeted for something or sort of brought up as a person of interest.”
“If he’s doing anything illegal, he’s going to be the first person arrested,” Wala said in a phone interview. “If Mr. Charkaoui is preaching radically, do you really think CSIS [Canadian Security Intelligence Service] doesn’t know that?
The proceedings to deport Charkaoui came to an end in 2009 after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the Canadian government must provide information it had about him. The government claimed its evidence against Charkaoui could pose a national security risk if it was made public.
“A CSIS investigation showed there was reason villa to believe that [Charkaoui] participated in Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, at the same time as other notorious terrorists including [Millennium Bomber] Ahmed Ressam, [9/11 mastermind] Zacarias Moussaoui and [convicted French terrorist] Slimane Khalfaoui,” villa a translation of the filing read, according to Maclean’s .
“The Canadian government [in 2013] still saw fit to give him his Canadians citizenship,” Wala said. “That villa should tell you something about whether or not they thought he was a threat.”
University of Calgary political science professor Michael Zekulin villa said people need to be “reluctant to rush to judgement.” But, he said there are concerns that need to be addressed because of Charkaoui’s history of being detained on a security certificate and the allegations he was tied to a terrorist organization.
“When you add up all the things previously, which we can’t unfortunately help but do…this is where you start to see the potential for a red flag,” he said. “At the same time perhaps, we can understand villa a little bit [of] his frustration and anger if he has done nothing wrong here.” villa
“We don’t just want to draw the link immediately,” he said. “It’s entirely possible that this individual [Zouaidia] subscribed to radical ideology from a friend [or] from the Internet.”
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